The post-purchase experience can determine whether a customer will become a loyal and repeat purchaser – maybe even a brand advocate – or simply a one-and-done passerby. Carefully crafting a post-purchase marketing program that fits your brand and your customer’s expectations is critical in reinforcing the customer’s perceived value of what they just purchased. This webinar will examine how to create a post-purchase messaging program that will keep customers buying time and time again.
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How to Boost Loyalty with
Post Purchase Messaging
The Real Fun Starts After the Sale
8. Customer Lifecycle
Jane
Visit the website
Nicole
Signs up for emails
at checkout
Browse products
Makes a purchase
Signs up for emails
on the homepage
Does not make a
purchase
18. Transactional Messages
Customize order and shipping confirmations
• Include cross-sell/upsells in the rail or below
content
• Include email signup links
• Invite to join rewards programs
20. Post Purchase Welcome
Create a unique checkout
welcome message
• Remove the incentive, if
applicable
• Acknowledge the purchase
• Customize the CTA to
provide value, not drive a
conversion
21. Post Purchase Thank You
Customize a “bounceback” thank you
message
• Thank the customer
• Offer an incentive if possible
• If offering an incentive, I recommend creating a
second, non-incentivized message
• Include upsells or cross-sells if possible
• Reinforce customer service
• Especially if you don’t offer an incentive
25. Post Purchase Thank You
• Start simple – don’t overload your message
• Develop the message as you go along
• Cross-sells, product recommendations
• Consider differing incentives based on previous
order value, lifetime customer value or AOV
26. Product Review
Create a product review message
• Again, thank the customer
• Why they should provide a review
• Use your brand’s voice
• Remind the customer about their thank you offer
(if applicable)
29. Product Care Message
How about a product care message?
• Reinforce your customer service
• Show people how to care for their products
• Cross-sells – do you sell fashionable umbrellas,
wash powders, wash bags, waterproofing or
other accessories?
30. Product Care Message
Registers a
product – creates
long-term product
knowledge
Cross-sell products
Resource center –
provides value to
the customer
31. Re-order/Reminder Message
Re-order and/or reminder messages
• Think of where this is applicable
• Offer product bundles for re-orders
• Re-order series (like abandoned basket)
• Optimize and show cross-sells or customer
favorites
• Use order history to determine incentives?
• E.g. Incentive, or different incentive, based on
AOV or order total
33. Post Purchase Messages
Email Sent
Order Confirmation Immediately
Custom Welcome 1 – 4 Hours
Shipping Confirmation Day 3
Bounceback/Thank You Day 7
Product Care Day 10
Manage Preference/Bday Invite Day 14
Cross-Sell Email Day 18
Product Review Day 21
Coupon Reminder/Offer Day 26
Transactional
Customer
Service
Data/Content
Promotional
* Build this out even further – next purchase coupon
remail at 60 days, lapsed purchaser, surveys, etc.
34. Types of Messages
• Checkout Welcome
• Thank You bounce back
• Customer service
reinforcement
• Product care/Insider tips
• Cross sell/recommendations
• Shoppers club/loyalty card
signup
• Product rating & review
message
• Facebook review message
• Site resources
• Social intro
• Preference center
(preferences are not always
reflected in purchase)
• Offer reminder
• Gift giving messages
• Refer a friend
• Reorder reminder
• Loyalty Messages:
• Welcome to the club
• Benefits message
• Spend tier incentives
39. Who’s Your Carly?
You know where she lives
You know what her weather is
going to be throughout the year
You know what she bought
What messages would
you craft for Carly?
42. Quick Poll
Keys to Creating Customer Loyalty with Effective Post
Purchase Marketing
43. Thank You Message Metrics
Clothing/lifestyle brand retailer
What: 15% off Thank You
message
When: 7 days after purchase
Lift over promo messages:
• Open Rate: +372%
• Click Rate: +123%
• Conv Rate: +662%
• RPE: +8,220%
• Message has generated 5%
of email revenue while
accounting for only 0.6% of
email sends
Household goods retailer
What: Customer Service Thank
You message
When: 7 days after purchase
Lift over promo messages:
• Open Rate: +166%
• Click Rate: +7%
• Conv Rate: +215%
• RPE: +895%
• Message accounts for 2.7%
in revenue while accounting
for only 0.3% of email sends
44. Post Purchase Series Metrics
Personal printing retailer
What: 4 message post purchase
series
Messages: 10% Thank You,
Product Care, Product Review,
Satisfaction Survey
Lift over promo messages:
• Open Rate: +68%
• Click Rate: +65%
• Conv Rate: +20%
• RPE: +367%
• Series has generated 11.6% of
email revenue
Auto parts retailer
What: 3 message post purchase
series
Messages: CS Thank You,
Website Resources, Club
Invitation/Blog Resources
Lift over promo messages:
• Open Rate: +152%
• Conv Rate: +126%
• RPE: +489%
• Series has generated 4.6% of
email revenue while
accounting for only 0.8% of
email sends
46. Post Purchase Considerations
• Remove all recent
purchasers from
promotional message
scheduling
• Remove these contacts
from receiving your
standard welcome series
47. Post Purchase Considerations
• Balance your messages
• Product review, Facebook review, survey &
rate us all benefit the company
• Does your series help build the relationship?
48. Post Purchase Considerations
• Use your brand’s voice
• Use data where applicable
• Upsell, cross-sell, prod recommendations
(including in transactional messages), using
AOV or purchase total for determining
incentives, etc.
50. Loyalty Marketing
• Loyalty programs area great way to show
value and keep customers coming back for
more
• These can be simplistic or advanced, based
on your capabilities. Work within your means
and build from there.
51. Loyalty Marketing
Basic type of loyalty program:
• Spend between $300-$499, get X
• Spend between $500-$999, get X+1
• Spend over $1000, get lifetime X
• Info needed: Lifetime spend
• You can automate messages when contacts gets
close to their threshold in order to push them over
54. Post Purchase Breakdown
A few key points:
• Prevent new contacts from receiving a
welcome series
• Remove an incentive from your welcome
message for newly opted-in contacts
• Exclude contacts from receiving standard
promotional messages
• Include a purchase check prior to sending
welcome series messages
55. Post Purchase Breakdown
Elements of a great post-purchase series:
• Utilizes order data
• Drives revenue
• Increases visits to your site
• Helps you ‘stand out from the pack’
• Increases your brand awareness
• Continues engagement with the consumer
56. Post Purchase Breakdown
Resolve to know your customer better
Be engaging, helpful, and speak to the
customers’ needs and wants
Think of these emails as a customer service
vehicle
Enhance your customer’s experience
59. Your Questions
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Marketing Strategist
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Notas do Editor
Today’s customers are smart, savvy and fiercely disloyal – and your job is how to appeal to the smart, savvy shopper while building loyalty
Companies spend so much time on the customer acquisition they often neglect the relationship building part of the lifecycle. The fact is that you need to nurture these relationships
Let’s think about it from a customer perspective
How companies differentiate these two people matters. These are two unique people in different stages of the purchase lifecycle, yet many companies treat them as if they are one in the same, yet expect different results. This is why PP messages are so critical!
Enter, post purchase messages
Are lifecycle messages – they are engaging, getting higher opens, clicks and RPE (rev per email).
Ideally you should be targeting your email subscribers with other lifecycle messages, like a welcome series, birthday/anniversary message
So how do we do that?
So where do we start?
How do we approach the post purchase series?
Your goal of post purchase messaging should be to enhance the customer experience.
How do you do this? How do you provide value? Let’s look at the example I just walked through
So how do you develop what messages you send?
Emotions, Trust, Values
** Trust is the foundation upon which loyalty is built
** How does your customer service stack up?
** Once we trust that a company can work with us to resolve a crisis, we automatically feel more loyal to them
There was a study performed that showed customers who had a negative experience which was fixed by the company were MORE LIKELY to become repeat purchasers than those who had a positive experience but no interaction with a company.
By providing excellent customer service, companies can address the issue at hand, prove their trustworthiness and increase customer loyalty
Think honestly about your company. WHY do people shop with you? Why do they come back?
ask yourself:
What makes us different?
Why does that matter to the consumer?
What should they buy from us
And no matter what, don’t over-value yourself! – what are your weaknesses
When you build the series, don’t think of email marketing like most do i.e. send an email, watch it convert. You should think about email as a customer service vehicle.
What sets two online stores apart from one another?
Customer Service: Customer service is a major differentiator between brands and can make or break customer loyalty
You need to excel at customer services
So if this looks familiar here are some simple ways to begin making the lifecycle messaging more meaningful.
So if this looks familiar here are some simple ways to begin making the lifecycle messaging more meaninggful.
Start your branding and customer service experience now!
ONE CLIENT DRIVES 22% OF THEIR EMAIL REVENUE OFF OF THEIR ORDER & SHIPING CONFIRM MESSAGES:
Lift over Promotional Messages:
•Open Rate: +401.7%
•Click Rate: +719.2%
•CTR: +4,100%
•Conv Rate: -33.8%
•AOV: +167.6%
•RPE: +8,462.5%
Start your branding and customer service experience now!
Typical message here – this can be incentivized or non-incentivized…or both. This should focus on cross-sell/upsell if incentivized. Customer Service if not incentivized.
This message can help you more than the customer, but it makes them feel as if they are a part of your customer’s shopping experience.
Be sure to provide some value for the customer here
This message can help you more than the customer, but it makes them feel as if they are a part of your customer’s shopping experience.
Be sure to provide some value for the customer here
POINT 1: Do they purchase gloves or boots in the fall – if so, how about a reminder message leading up to the cold weather season the following year
** What about perfumes, or makeup or other disposable products you may offer?
Think of other products with lifespans
BROOKS RUNNINF SHOES
BROOKS EXAMPLE
Talk about what the messages are achieving – types of messages (rev focused, relationship)
LOOK FOR A BALANCED SCoRECARD
When you build the series, don’t think of email marketing like most do i.e. send an email, watch it convert. You should think about email as a customer service vehicle.
What sets two online stores apart from one another?
Customer Service: Customer service is a major differentiator between brands and can make or break customer loyalty
You need to excel at customer services
Funnel them down the appropriate path
WHO DO THEY BENEFIT?
These messages can tie into your PP messaging
Simply have them sign up and include them on a list. Use that as part fo a segment and provide to them extra incentives, such as extra % off for promos.
Intro thee messages/programs within your PP mesaging
For more organized programs MILLY NY has one with 3rd party partners, private in store events and more